Edelman v. Decker’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 781 · 15 U.S.C. § 78I (§ 9 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78N (§ 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78Z (§ 26 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Superintendent of Insurance of State of New York v. Bankers Life and Casualty Company · Securities & Exchange Commission v. National Securities, Inc. · Securities & Exchange Commission v. Capital Gains Research Bureau, Inc. · S. S. W., Inc. v. Air Transport Ass'n of America
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““§ 240.10b — 5 Employment of manipulative and deceptive devices. “It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, by the use of any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce, or of the mails or of any facility of any national securities exchange, “(a) To employ any device, scheme, or artifice to defraud, “(b) To make any untrue statement of a material fact or to omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or “(c) To engage in any act, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon any person, “in connection with the purchase or sale of any security.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Guttman v. Brinkmann
How this case has been treated — in progress
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